EP0184575B1 - Transformed yeasts producing lysozyme, plasmids used for this transformation, and uses thereof - Google Patents
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- This invention relates to yeasts which, by tranformation with DNA of foreign origin, have been rendered capable of producing enzymes of the 1,4- ⁇ -N-acetylmuramidase type.
- 1,4- ⁇ -N-acetylmuramidases are enzymes capable of selectively cleaving the glycosidic bond between N-acetylglucosamine and N-acetylmuramic acid in the peptidoglycans which form the cell wall of bacteria. This wall is thus lysed, thereby entailing the death of the cells.
- These enzymes more commonly called lysozymes, thus act as bactericides, and it is admitted that this property explains their generalised presence in most of the biological fluids of higher animals. Lysozyme is indeed found, at various levels of concentration, in blood, tears, saliva, milk, ... of mammals. It is also found in the vegetable kingdom, e.g. in papaya. However, industrial-scale extraction of lysozyme is carried out from egg white, where it is present in relatively great concentration, by various adsorption and/or precipitation processes (Belgian patent 694,538).
- lysozyme can be used in the manufacture of baked pressed-paste cheese to efficiently inhibit during ripening the development of butyric acid bacteria responsible for manufacturing defects including even cheese blowing (French patent 8003321). It can also be used for the preservation of various perishable foodstuffs, such as meat products (A. Akashi Jap. J. Zootechnical Sci. 42 , 1971, 289), wines (Japanese patent 3115/71, 1971) or sake (M. Yajima et al., J. Ferm. Technol. 46 , 1968, 782). It can further be used to preserve milk components for pediatric use (Japanese patent 16780/70, 1970), etc...
- the plasmids ensuring this transformation also form an object of the invention, as does the process for producing lysozyme by growing the transformed yeasts.
- yeasts It is known to genetically reprogram yeasts by transforming them with a fragment of DNA carrying a coding part formed by a heterologous gene or by the product of the reverse transcription of the corresponding messenger RNA.
- vectors for said fragment plasmids capable of autonomous replication in the yeast cell by the presence of a replication origin recognized by the replication machinery of the host cell.
- the vector must also comprise a marker gene allowing visualisation and selection of the cells which have effectively been transformed by the plasmid.
- the coding part must be preceded by a promotor, i.e. a sequence recognized by the RNA polymerase of the host cell so as to ensure efficient transcription of the coding part into the corresponding messenger RNA.
- yeasts of the species Saccharomyces cerevisiae for which a great number of expression vectors comprising those various elements have been constructed.
- These vectors generally comprise the replication origin of the 2-micron plasmid present in most of this species, or even an ARS segment of autonomous replication of chromosomal origin.
- marker gene there is generally used a gene which codes for an enzyme involved in the biosynthesis of an essential metabolite, e.g. an amino acid.
- the host cell to be used is a yeast strain which, through mutation, has became auxotrophic for this metabolite.
- plasmids often further comprise bacterial sequences capable of ensuring their replication and their selection in an intermediate bacterial host, e.g. Escherichia coli .
- shuttle plasmids it may be cited YEp13 (J.R. Broach et al . Gene 8 , 1979, 121), pFL1-4 (M.R. Chevallier et al , Gene 11 , 1980, 11), pJDB207 (J.D.Beggs Alfred Benson Symposium N°16, Munksgaard, Copenhaegen, 1981, p.383), pMH158 and pJO158 (M. Heuterspreute et al ., Gene, 34 , 1985, 363).
- a plasmid comprising at least the replication (REP) functions of the sequence of the 2-micron endogenous plasmid is used, mainly when the host cell belongs to the S. cerevisiae -species.
- Said functions generally bring to the plasmid a greater stability, particularly if the host cell has beforehand been cured of its 2-micron plasmids (C.P.Hollenberg, Curr. Top. Microbiol. Immunol. 96 , 1982, 119; R.M. Walmsley et al .,Mol. Gen. Genet. 1983, 361).
- Classical examples of such vectors are plasmids pJDB219 and pJDB248 (J.D.Beggs, Nature 275 , 1978, 104). Another vector of this type is described in the examples given hereafter.
- promotors are known in yeast, e.g. the promotors of alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH1), enolase (ENO8 and ENO46), glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAP63 and GAP491), phosphoglycerate kinase (PGK) (M.J. Dobson et al ., Nucleic Acids Res. 10 , 1982, 2625), alkaline phosphatase (PHO3 and PHO5) (European patent application 100,561) or still the promotor p415 of which mention will be made hereafter.
- ADH1 alcohol dehydrogenase
- ENO8 and ENO46 enolase
- GAP63 and GAP491 glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase
- PGK phosphoglycerate kinase
- PHO3 and PHO5 European patent application 100,561 or still the promotor p415 of
- yeast S.cerevisiae also comprised in the invention are the transformed cells obtained from other species and genera of yeasts transformable by expression vectors of the same type as those mentioned hereabove and their variants.
- other yeasts it may be cited Saccharomycopsis lipolytica , Schizosaccharomyces pombe , Kluyveromyces lactis , etc...
- transformable yeasts of the genus Saccharomyces will be used as host cells, and still preferably those belonging to the species S.cerevisiae .
- tranformable strains belonging to this species it may be cited AH22 and GRF18 amongst many others.
- the 1,4- ⁇ -N-acetylmuramidases produced according to the invention by these various sorts of yeasts may have different origins. It may for example be chicken lysozyme which, as described above, is already produced on an industrial scale. However, it is evident that DNA parts coding for lysozymes from other sources may similarly be expressed in yeast, as these various lysozymes present, to different extents, marked homologies (P. Jollès et al ., Mol. & Cell. Biochemistry 63 , 1984, 165).
- yeast goose lysozyme which has a notably higher specific activity than chicken lysozyme (R.C.Canfield et al ., in "Lysozyme", ed. E. F. Osserman et al ., Academic Press 1974, p.63).
- yeast human lysozyme also very active and particularly indicated for pharmaceutical uses as well as in the composition of milks for pediatric use.
- the lysozyme from papaya, and that coded by bacterial viruses can also be cited.
- yeast autolysates are increasingly used as additives in various foodstuffs (meat pie, soups, sauces, ...), not only because of their own nutritive value, but also because of their organoleptic properties.
- the presence of lysozyme in the original yeasts offers the advantage of preserving to a certain point, the autolysates from bacterial contamination, to which they are exposed as are the food products in which they are incorporated.
- the presence of lysozyme allows a reduction in the sterilization temperature of food products (British patent 1,438,560).
- Yeasts according to the invention can also be used as a source for purified lysozyme, by separating the lysozyme from the yeast. It is however clear that this operation can present considerable difficulties if the lysozyme is associated within the cell to the other cellular proteins. It is thus an important aspect of the invention to provide yeasts capable of excreting the lysozyme produced, whether it is released in the culture medium from where it will be recovered by classical methods, e.g. by adsorption and/or precipitation (Belgian patent 694,538), or it remains associated to the cell wall from where it will be detached by other method.
- yeasts capable of excreting the lysozyme produced, whether it is released in the culture medium from where it will be recovered by classical methods, e.g. by adsorption and/or precipitation (Belgian patent 694,538), or it remains associated to the cell wall from where it will be detached by other method.
- the signal sequence of 18 amino acids present at the N-terminal part of prelysozyme and which allows secretion of lysozyme into the lumen of the endoplasmic reticulum of chicken oviduct cells is also recognized by yeast cells.
- yeast cells show indeed that when the DNA coding for chicken prelysozyme is expressed in yeast, the product of this expression is excreted therefrom. Therefore, fusing the 54-nucleotide fragment coding for this signal sequence with the DNA coding for the structural part of other proteins, including lysozyme from other origins, may result in the excretion of said proteins from the yeast cells where they are produced.
- a lysozyme gene can be expressed in yeast without exerting therein any lethal effect, e.g. by lysis of the cells.
- the only known example of cloning and expressing a lysozyme gene in a heterologous cell is the cloning of the chicken lysozyme gene in Hela and MCF-7 human cells lines (P.D. Matthias et al ., The EMBO J. 1 , 1982, 1207), although the expression of the gene was only evidenced by the production of the corresponding messenger RNA and not by production of the protein itself.
- lysozyme is also capable of attacking the yeast cell walls, mainly by hydrolysis of its chitin component (G.N.Maksimova et al ., Prikl. Biochim. Mikrobiol. 18 , 1982, 529).
- the budding of yeasts is accompanied by the formation of a septum of pure chitin between the bud and the mother-cell, it could be expected that the production and excretion of lysozyme by yeast cells would lead to severe alterations of their multiplicative function. It could also be expected that the regeneration of the cell wall from protoplasts after transformation would be compromised. It is therefore surprising that not only could classical techniques of genetic engineering bring yeasts to express a lysozyme gene, but also that cells thus transformed could produce and excrete lysozyme while actively growing.
- a triple ligation involving fragments Hga I- Mlu I and Mlu I- Acc I of pBR-lys-1 and fragment Acc I- Hga I of plys5 enabled the construction of a clone (plys 10) containing the entire lysozyme gene, including the ATG initiation codon but without introns (Fig. 2).
- the complete cDNA of lysozyme is now located between a unique Bam HI site at the 5' end and a unique Sph I site at the 3' end.
- the fusion thereof with an ATG-free promoter terminated by a Bam HI site should give a functional expression unit that has still to be associated in a plasmid with the replication origin and the ⁇ -lactamase gene of pBR322 (to ensure its replication and its selection in E. coli ) and with the replication origin of the 2-micron plasmid and the LEU 2 gene (for replication and selection in yeast).
- the plasmids constructed as described hereabove were then transformed into GRF18 strain Leu ⁇ , His ⁇ ) of the yeast S.cerevisiae , followed by selection for clones prototrophic for leucine (Leu+).
- lysosyme was evidenced around transformed colonies growing on Petri dishes covered with a lawn of M. lysodeikticus.
- lysozyme expression was visualised by a transparent halo of bacterial lysis around the colonies.
- the halo of lysis was greatest with plys ⁇ 49 indicating that this clone was the best producer of lysozyme.
- This result may also show that the lysozyme is exported from the yeast cell since it must of necessity be extracellular in order to lyse the bacterial indicator.
- the vector pJDB207 upon which the lysozyme expression plasmids plys ⁇ 29, plys ⁇ 49 and plys ⁇ 59 (described hereabove) are based does not contain the entire 2-micron yeast plasmid and is consequently dependent on the presence of the endogenous 2-micron plasmid (found in most strains of S.cerevisiae ) for its continued maintainance. This leads to such an unstable situation that the pJDB207-type plasmids are frequently lost from the cell (E. Erhaert & C.P.Hollenberg, J. Bacterial. 156 , 1983, 625, and M. Jarayam et al ., Cell 34 , 1983, 95).
- the natural 2-micron plasmid is stably inherited. It is indeed known that plasmids constructed in such a way that they contain the entire 2-micron plasmid pJDB219, are more stable than those of the pJDB207-type (C.P. Hollenberg, Curr. Top. Microbiol. Immunol. 96 , 1982, 119; R.M. Walmsley et al ., Mol. Gen. Genet. 1983 . 361). Such plasmids are therefore more useful for long term growth, as for example in industrial fermentations.
- plasmid YEpB2 ( Figure 6) was used, which was previously made by cloning the entire 2-micron plasmid into pBR322 at their mutually unique Pst I sites. Two fragments from YEpB2 and two fragments from plys ⁇ 49 were then combined to give plys50 ( Figure 7).
- the three 2-micron genes A, B and C are intact and the lysozyme gene is expressed from the p415 ⁇ 4 promoter as in plys ⁇ 49 described in the preceeding example.
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- This invention relates to yeasts which, by tranformation with DNA of foreign origin, have been rendered capable of producing enzymes of the 1,4-β-N-acetylmuramidase type.
- It is known that 1,4-β-N-acetylmuramidases are enzymes capable of selectively cleaving the glycosidic bond between N-acetylglucosamine and N-acetylmuramic acid in the peptidoglycans which form the cell wall of bacteria. This wall is thus lysed, thereby entailing the death of the cells. These enzymes, more commonly called lysozymes, thus act as bactericides, and it is admitted that this property explains their generalised presence in most of the biological fluids of higher animals. Lysozyme is indeed found, at various levels of concentration, in blood, tears, saliva, milk, ... of mammals. It is also found in the vegetable kingdom, e.g. in papaya. However, industrial-scale extraction of lysozyme is carried out from egg white, where it is present in relatively great concentration, by various adsorption and/or precipitation processes (Belgian patent 694,538).
- Present applications of chicken lysozyme are mostly in the pharmaceutical area, where it is used to fight various infections. Other applications are in the food industry. For instance, it is known that lysozyme can be used in the manufacture of baked pressed-paste cheese to efficiently inhibit during ripening the development of butyric acid bacteria responsible for manufacturing defects including even cheese blowing (French patent 8003321). It can also be used for the preservation of various perishable foodstuffs, such as meat products (A. Akashi Jap. J. Zootechnical Sci. 42, 1971, 289), wines (Japanese patent 3115/71, 1971) or sake (M. Yajima et al., J. Ferm. Technol. 46, 1968, 782). It can further be used to preserve milk components for pediatric use (Japanese patent 16780/70, 1970), etc...
- These various applications represent a considerable potential market insofar as lysozyme can be produced easily, in large amounts and at sufficiently low cost. The various processes presently enabling to extract lysozyme from egg white are commercially acceptable only if the egg white can be reused in food after being treated. The lysozyme production capacity is therefore partly ruled by the egg white market, and this poses a problem the more difficult to solve that technical difficulties, and even in some countries legal restraints, limit the use of treated egg white in standard foodstuffs.
- These problems, which are linked to the availability of natural sources of lysozyme become insurmountable in the case of mammalian lysozymes, whether the initial concentration thereof is too low, as for cow milk lysozyme, or the raw material is practically nonexistent, as for human lysozyme. Thus it appears that there is a need for a technique enabling to produce lysozyme and avoiding the hereabove described problems.
- The main object of this invention is to provide yeasts made capable of producing lysozyme by the classical techniques of genetic engineering. More specifically, it relates to yeasts so transformed that their DNA comprises at least one copy of a fragment coding for a 1,4-β-N-acetylmuramidase and that this fragment is expressed therein as the corresponding active protein. Another object of the invention is to provide yeasts transformed as hereabove described, but which are also capable of excreting the lysozyme they produce, so as to facilitate the separation and the purification thereof. The plasmids ensuring this transformation also form an object of the invention, as does the process for producing lysozyme by growing the transformed yeasts. These objects as well as other advantages and implications of the invention will appear more clearly in the description below.
- It is known to genetically reprogram yeasts by transforming them with a fragment of DNA carrying a coding part formed by a heterologous gene or by the product of the reverse transcription of the corresponding messenger RNA. For this purpose, it is usual to use as vectors for said fragment plasmids capable of autonomous replication in the yeast cell by the presence of a replication origin recognized by the replication machinery of the host cell. The vector must also comprise a marker gene allowing visualisation and selection of the cells which have effectively been transformed by the plasmid. Finally, the coding part must be preceded by a promotor, i.e. a sequence recognized by the RNA polymerase of the host cell so as to ensure efficient transcription of the coding part into the corresponding messenger RNA.
- In practice, these techniques have mainly been applied to yeasts of the species Saccharomyces cerevisiae for which a great number of expression vectors comprising those various elements have been constructed. These vectors generally comprise the replication origin of the 2-micron plasmid present in most of this species, or even an ARS segment of autonomous replication of chromosomal origin. As marker gene, there is generally used a gene which codes for an enzyme involved in the biosynthesis of an essential metabolite, e.g. an amino acid. In such a case, the host cell to be used is a yeast strain which, through mutation, has became auxotrophic for this metabolite. By inoculating with this strain a medium free from said metabolite, only those cells transformed by a plasmid bearing the missing gene will be able to grow. Typical examples of such markers are the genes LEU2 or TRP1 which respectively code for an enzyme involved in the biosynthesis of leucine and tryptophane. These expression vectors must also comprise one or preferably several restriction sites where to insert the coding part of interest, as well as the various elements required for optimizing the expression thereof, i.e. promotors, terminators, and other control elements.
- These plasmids often further comprise bacterial sequences capable of ensuring their replication and their selection in an intermediate bacterial host, e.g. Escherichia coli. As classical examples of such shuttle plasmids, it may be cited YEp13 (J.R. Broach et al. Gene 8, 1979, 121), pFL1-4 (M.R. Chevallier et al, Gene 11, 1980, 11), pJDB207 (J.D.Beggs Alfred Benson Symposium N°16, Munksgaard, Copenhaegen, 1981, p.383), pMH158 and pJO158 (M. Heuterspreute et al., Gene, 34, 1985, 363).
- According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, a plasmid comprising at least the replication (REP) functions of the sequence of the 2-micron endogenous plasmid is used, mainly when the host cell belongs to the S. cerevisiae-species. Said functions generally bring to the plasmid a greater stability, particularly if the host cell has beforehand been cured of its 2-micron plasmids (C.P.Hollenberg, Curr. Top. Microbiol. Immunol. 96, 1982, 119; R.M. Walmsley et al.,Mol. Gen. Genet. 1983, 361). Classical examples of such vectors are plasmids pJDB219 and pJDB248 (J.D.Beggs, Nature 275, 1978, 104). Another vector of this type is described in the examples given hereafter.
- Finally, to ensure an expression level as high as possible of the coding part of interest, it is necessary to associate it with a promotor as efficient as possible. Various strong promotors are known in yeast, e.g. the promotors of alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH1), enolase (ENO8 and ENO46), glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAP63 and GAP491), phosphoglycerate kinase (PGK) (M.J. Dobson et al., Nucleic Acids Res. 10, 1982, 2625), alkaline phosphatase (PHO3 and PHO5) (European patent application 100,561) or still the promotor p415 of which mention will be made hereafter.
- These various techniques, which have been successfully applied to the cloning and the expression of many heterologous genes in yeast can, of course, be used as well for ensuring expression in yeast of the genes of lysozymes or of any part of DNA coding for a 1,4-β-N-acetylmuramidase. Examples of specific constructions are given in the present patent for the purpose of illustration, but it is evident that many other possibilities exist and that various combinations of replication origins, marker genes, efficient promotors, and other structural elements may be used to obtain similar results. The transformed cells obtained in those various cases have therefore to be considered as being comprised within the scope of the invention.
- Similarly, although most of these techniques have mainly been applied to the transformation of the yeast S.cerevisiae, also comprised in the invention are the transformed cells obtained from other species and genera of yeasts transformable by expression vectors of the same type as those mentioned hereabove and their variants. As examples of other yeasts, it may be cited Saccharomycopsis lipolytica, Schizosaccharomyces pombe, Kluyveromyces lactis, etc... However, according to a preferred embodiment, transformable yeasts of the genus Saccharomyces will be used as host cells, and still preferably those belonging to the species S.cerevisiae. As examples of tranformable strains belonging to this species, it may be cited AH22 and GRF18 amongst many others.
- The 1,4-β-N-acetylmuramidases produced according to the invention by these various sorts of yeasts may have different origins. It may for example be chicken lysozyme which, as described above, is already produced on an industrial scale. However, it is evident that DNA parts coding for lysozymes from other sources may similarly be expressed in yeast, as these various lysozymes present, to different extents, marked homologies (P. Jollès et al., Mol. & Cell. Biochemistry 63, 1984, 165). For example, one may express in yeast goose lysozyme, which has a notably higher specific activity than chicken lysozyme (R.C.Canfield et al., in "Lysozyme", ed. E. F. Osserman et al., Academic Press 1974, p.63). One may also express in yeast human lysozyme, also very active and particularly indicated for pharmaceutical uses as well as in the composition of milks for pediatric use). The lysozyme from papaya, and that coded by bacterial viruses can also be cited.
- When, according to the invention, a yeast strain has been induced by genetic engineering to produce lysozyme from any origin, it is necessary, to take advantage of this new property, to multiply it by fermentation under the most favourable conditions for its growth. A biomass is thus obtained which can as such find applications in human or animal feeding. It is known for example that yeast autolysates are increasingly used as additives in various foodstuffs (meat pie, soups, sauces, ...), not only because of their own nutritive value, but also because of their organoleptic properties. The presence of lysozyme in the original yeasts offers the advantage of preserving to a certain point, the autolysates from bacterial contamination, to which they are exposed as are the food products in which they are incorporated. On the other hand, it is known that the presence of lysozyme allows a reduction in the sterilization temperature of food products (British patent 1,438,560).
- Yeasts according to the invention can also be used as a source for purified lysozyme, by separating the lysozyme from the yeast. It is however clear that this operation can present considerable difficulties if the lysozyme is associated within the cell to the other cellular proteins. It is thus an important aspect of the invention to provide yeasts capable of excreting the lysozyme produced, whether it is released in the culture medium from where it will be recovered by classical methods, e.g. by adsorption and/or precipitation (Belgian patent 694,538), or it remains associated to the cell wall from where it will be detached by other method. Indeed it has surprisingly been observed that the signal sequence of 18 amino acids present at the N-terminal part of prelysozyme and which allows secretion of lysozyme into the lumen of the endoplasmic reticulum of chicken oviduct cells, is also recognized by yeast cells, The following examples show indeed that when the DNA coding for chicken prelysozyme is expressed in yeast, the product of this expression is excreted therefrom. Therefore, fusing the 54-nucleotide fragment coding for this signal sequence with the DNA coding for the structural part of other proteins, including lysozyme from other origins, may result in the excretion of said proteins from the yeast cells where they are produced.
- However, the most fundamental and most surprising aspect of the invention is the fact that a lysozyme gene can be expressed in yeast without exerting therein any lethal effect, e.g. by lysis of the cells. The only known example of cloning and expressing a lysozyme gene in a heterologous cell is the cloning of the chicken lysozyme gene in Hela and MCF-7 human cells lines (P.D. Matthias et al., The EMBO J. 1, 1982, 1207), although the expression of the gene was only evidenced by the production of the corresponding messenger RNA and not by production of the protein itself. Now it is known that lysozyme is also capable of attacking the yeast cell walls, mainly by hydrolysis of its chitin component (G.N.Maksimova et al., Prikl. Biochim. Mikrobiol. 18, 1982, 529). As it is known that the budding of yeasts is accompanied by the formation of a septum of pure chitin between the bud and the mother-cell, it could be expected that the production and excretion of lysozyme by yeast cells would lead to severe alterations of their multiplicative function. It could also be expected that the regeneration of the cell wall from protoplasts after transformation would be compromised. It is therefore surprising that not only could classical techniques of genetic engineering bring yeasts to express a lysozyme gene, but also that cells thus transformed could produce and excrete lysozyme while actively growing.
- The above will appear clearly in the examples which follow. These examples are given solely as illustration, as any other construction leading to the production of any 1,4-β-N-acetylmuramidase by any yeast strain is to be considered as being comprised within the scope of the invention.
- In the following examples, reference is made to the annexed drawings in which :
- Figure 1 represents the construction of plasmid plys5 which will later be used for the reconstruction of the complete cDNA of chicken lysozyme. This construction was started from cosmid pFF2-lys-16 containing a 40 kb insert comprising the entire lysozyme gene. A 2.1 kb HindIII insert comprising the first exon of this gene was then inserted into plasmid pEMBL8. The plys5 plasmid thus obtained is lacZ⁻ and can then be distinguished from plasmid pEMBL8 which is lacZ⁺.
- Figure 2 shows how the complete cDNA of lysosyme has been reconstructed within plasmid plys10 by ligation of a AccI-HgaI fragment originating from plys5 and containing the 5' terminal end of the lysozyme gene with two other fragments originating from plasmid pBR-lys-1 and containing the remainder of the cDNA of lysozyme.
- Figure 3 shows the construction of plasmid plysΔ9 comprising the cDNA of lysozyme deleted by digestion with exonuclease BAL31 of the untranslated part of its 5' terminal end.
- Figure 4 shows the construction of expression vectors of lysozyme by ligation of purified fragments originating from plasmids YEpZ415, YEpZ101Δ2 (or 4 or 5),
plysΔ9, pK01 and pJDB207. Plasmids plysΔ29 (or 49 or 59) only differ among themselves by the promoters brought by plasmids YEpZ101Δ2 (or 4 or 5) to ensure expression of the lysozyme cDNA brought by plysΔ9. - Figure 5 shows that cellular extracts of yeast transformed by plasmids plysΔ49 and plysΔ59 are capable of lysing E.coli cells treated with EDTA to make them susceptible to the action of lysozyme.
- Figure 6 represents the construction of plasmid YEpB2 by ligation of fragments obtained by the action of restriction enzyme PstI on plasmid pBR322 and on the 2-micron endogenous yeast plasmid.
- Figure 7 represents the construction of the lysozyme expression vector plys50 by univocal ligation of five purified fragments obtained from plasmids YEpB2 and plysΔ49.
- First, the construction of a complete cDNA clone was made starting from two different clones : pBR-lys-1 which contains chicken lysozyme cDNA but incomplete at the 5' end (P.Baldacci et al., Nucleic Acid Res. 6, 1979, 2667), and pFF2-lys-16 which contains 40 kb of chicken genomic DNA comprising the entire lysozyme gene including introns (P.Baldacci et al., Nucleic Acid Res. 9, 1981, 3575) (Fig. 1). Neither of these two clones is suitable for expression of lysozyme in yeast which is unable to correctly process transcripts from higher eucaryotes (J.D. Beggs et al., Nature 283, 1980, 835). It was however possible to reconstruct a complete cDNA clone by combining the 3' end of the available incomplete cDNA with the 5' end of the complete gene ; it was indeed clear from published data (P.Balducci et al., 1979, op.cit. ; A. Jung et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 77, 1980, 5759 ; M.Grez et al., Cell 25, 1981, 743) that the complete gene comprises no introns in the 5' region corresponding to the missing part of the cDNA. A 2.1 kb DNA fragment from cosmid pFF2-lys-16 was thus sub-cloned into pEMBL8 (L. Dente et al., Nucleic Acid Res. 11, 1983, 1645), giving plasmid plys5 (Fig.1). This clone contains the complete 5' proximal exon of the lysozyme gene. A conveniently located HgaI site is present in the region of overlap between plys5 and the cDNA clone pBR-lys-1. A triple ligation involving fragments HgaI-MluI and MluI-AccI of pBR-lys-1 and fragment AccI-HgaI of plys5 enabled the construction of a clone (plys 10) containing the entire lysozyme gene, including the ATG initiation codon but without introns (Fig. 2).
- The non-coding part of the 5' region of the lysozyme gene present in plasmid plys10 was deleted by opening the plasmid at the unique AccI restriction site and digestion with BAL31 nuclease. A population of shortened plasmids was thus obtained which were then cleaved at the unique PstI site; the fragments comprised between the PstI site and the end digested by BAL31 were inserted between sites PstI and SmaI of plasmid YEpZ100, as described in Belgian patent 901,222. This operation has three consequences :
- (1) the non-translated part of the 5' area preceding the lysozyme ATG codon is deleted,
- (2) the AccI and SmaI sites are destroyed, and
- (3) an easily manipulable BamHI site (immediately adjacent to the SmaI site in YEpZ100) is attached to the beginning of the lysozyme gene.
- The complete cDNA of lysozyme is now located between a unique BamHI site at the 5' end and a unique SphI site at the 3' end. As said cDNA carries its own ATG initiation codon, the fusion thereof with an ATG-free promoter terminated by a BamHI site should give a functional expression unit that has still to be associated in a plasmid with the replication origin and the β-lactamase gene of pBR322 (to ensure its replication and its selection in E. coli) and with the replication origin of the 2-micron plasmid and the LEU2 gene (for replication and selection in yeast).
- This construction was carried out by simultaneous ligation of the given following fragments :
- (a) a HindIII-BamHI fragment from plasmid YEpZ101Δ2 and comprising the p415Δ2 fragment originating from a deletion of promoter p415 (Belgian patent 901,222),
- (b) a SphI-BamHI fragment from plysΔ9 and comprising the complete cDNA of lysozyme,
- (c) an EcoRI-SphI fragment from plasmid pK01 (K. Mc Kenney et al., in "Gene amplification and analysis", J.G. Chririkjan & T. Panas editors, Elsevier/North Holland, New York, 1981, p.383) to be used as a junction between fragments (b) and (d),
- (d) a PstI-EcoRI fragment from plasmid YEpZ415 comprising the origin of replication and one half of the β-lactamase gene of pBR322, and
- (e) a HindIII-PstI fragment from pJDB207 comprising the 2-micron-LEU2 segment and the other half of the β-lactamase gene.
- By proceeding in the same way with two other fragments derived by deletion from promoter p415 (p415Δ4 and p415Δ5), two other plasmids were produced : plysΔ49 and plysΔ59. These three plasmids thus only differ by the fact that the promoter is positioned at various distances from the lysozyme cDNA, this resulting during transcription in different distances between the beginning (the 5' end) of the corresponding messenger RNAs and the natural AUG translation start site.
- The plasmids constructed as described hereabove were then transformed into GRF18 strain Leu⁻, His⁻) of the yeast S.cerevisiae, followed by selection for clones prototrophic for leucine (Leu⁺).
- These clones were then ground with glass beads, and the lysates obtained were clarified by centrifugation. Their lysozyme activity was tested by determining the decrease in optical density of a suspension of E. coli cells by the method of Mc Macken et al. (J. Mol. Biol. 49, 1970, 639). In Figure 5, the initial values of the optical density at 650 nm (OD650) were identical for all clones (0.7), but they have been shifted on the diagram for a sake of clarity. The results of Figure 5 show a significant activity for GRF18(plysΔ49), somewhat less for cells transformed by plasmid plysΔ59 and virtually none for those transformed by plysΔ29. Similar results were obtained by using a method in which the cells, used as indicator for the action of lysozyme were those of the bacterium Micrococcus lysodeikticus (G. Alderton et al., J. Biol. Chem. 157, 1945, 43).
- In a different type of assay, lysosyme was evidenced around transformed colonies growing on Petri dishes covered with a lawn of M. lysodeikticus. In this case, lysozyme expression was visualised by a transparent halo of bacterial lysis around the colonies. In agreement with the results using cell-free lysates, the halo of lysis was greatest with plysΔ49 indicating that this clone was the best producer of lysozyme. This result may also show that the lysozyme is exported from the yeast cell since it must of necessity be extracellular in order to lyse the bacterial indicator.
- The vector pJDB207 upon which the lysozyme expression plasmids plysΔ29, plysΔ49 and plysΔ59 (described hereabove) are based does not contain the entire 2-micron yeast plasmid and is consequently dependent on the presence of the endogenous 2-micron plasmid (found in most strains of S.cerevisiae) for its continued maintainance. This leads to such an unstable situation that the pJDB207-type plasmids are frequently lost from the cell (E. Erhaert & C.P.Hollenberg, J. Bacterial. 156, 1983, 625, and M. Jarayam et al., Cell 34, 1983, 95). In contrast, the natural 2-micron plasmid is stably inherited. It is indeed known that plasmids constructed in such a way that they contain the entire 2-micron plasmid pJDB219, are more stable than those of the pJDB207-type (C.P. Hollenberg, Curr. Top. Microbiol. Immunol. 96, 1982, 119; R.M. Walmsley et al., Mol. Gen. Genet. 1983. 361). Such plasmids are therefore more useful for long term growth, as for example in industrial fermentations.
- To construct such a complete 2-micron vector, plasmid YEpB2 (Figure 6) was used, which was previously made by cloning the entire 2-micron plasmid into pBR322 at their mutually unique PstI sites. Two fragments from YEpB2 and two fragments from plysΔ49 were then combined to give plys50 (Figure 7). In this plasmid, the three 2-micron genes A, B and C are intact and the lysozyme gene is expressed from the p415Δ4 promoter as in plysΔ49 described in the preceeding example.
- After transforming the GRF18 strain (His⁻, Leu⁻) of S.cerevisiae by plasmids plys50 and pJDB207, the transformed cells obtained in both cases were separately grown on a minimum medium supplemented with histidine (0.002%). When the cultures had reached the stationary phase (cell dry weight = about 1.5 g/l of culture), the cells were separated from the culture medium by centrifugation, suspended in a 0.1M pH7 phosphate buffer, and ground with glass beads. Lysozyme activity in the supernatant and the lysate from both cultures was determined by their ability to lyse M. lysodeikticus cells according to the method of D. Shugar (Biochem. Biophys. Acta, 8, 1952, 302).
- No lysozyme activity could be shown for the strain transformed by plasmid pJDB207. By contrast, in the case of GRF18(plys50) strain, an activity of 162 units per ml of culture was determined and shown to be distributed as follows : 44 units/ml associated with the cells and 118 units/ml in the medium.
- By determining total proteins according to the method of D. Herbert et al. (Methods in Microbiol. 5B, 1971, 209) as modified by C. Wang and R. L. Smith (Anal. Biochem. 63, 1975, 414), taking into account the specific activity of commercial purified lysozyme (Boehringer Mannheim), it was drawn that lysozyme produced by yeast in the above conditions accounts for about 1% of the soluble yeast proteins.
- Strains GRF18(plysΔ49) and AH22cir°(plys50) have been deposited on December 5, 1984 at the Centraal Bureau voor Schimmelcultures,
Oosterstraat 1, P.O. Box 273, NL - 3740 AG Baarn (The Netherlands) where they have been respectively given accession numbers CBS 7130 and CBS 7129.
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- Transformed yeast characterized in that the DNA thereof comprises at least one copy of a fragment coding for a 1,4-β-N-acetylmuramidase and that said fragment is expressed therein as the corresponding active protein wherein the fragment coding for the 1,4-β-N-acetlymuramidase is preceeded by a leader sequence working in such a way that the protein coded by said fragment is excreted through the cytoplasmic membrane of the yeast cell.
- Transformed yeast according to claim 1, wherein the leader sequence is that accompanying the chicken lysozyme gene.
- Transformed yeast according to anyone of claims 1 to 2, wherein the fragment coding for the 1,4-β-N-acetylmuramidase is inserted into a vector plasmid capable of autonomously replicating into a great number of copies in yeast.
- Transformed yeast according to claim 3, wherein the replication of the vector plasmid is ensured by sequences from the 2-micron plasmid comprising at least the replication origin thereof.
- Transformed yeast according to any of claims 1 to 4, wherein expression of the fragment coding for 1,4-β-N-acetylmuramidase is ensured by a strong yeast promoter.
- Transformed yeast according to claim 5, wherein the strong yeast promoter is selected from the group comprising the promoters of the genes coding for alcohol dehydrogenase, enolase, glyceroldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase, phosphaglycerate kinase and alkaline phosphatase, as well as promoter p415 and variants thereof.
- Transformed yeast according to claim 6, wherein the strong yeast promoter is promoter p415 or variants thereof.
- Transformed yeast according to any one of claims 1 to 7, wherein the yeast belongs to the Saccharomyces genus.
- Transformed yeast according to claim 8, wherein the yeast belongs to the Saccharomyces cerevisiae species.
- Transformed yeast according to claim 9, wherein the yeast is selected from the group comprising strains GRF18 and AH22.
- Transformed yeast according to any one of claims 1 to 10, wherein expression of the fragment coding for the 1,4-β-N-acetylmuramidase is ensured by a plasmid selected from the group comprising plysΔ49 (obtainable from deposit CBS-7130) and plys50 (obtainable from deposit CBS-7129).
- Yeast AH22cir°(plys50), deposited under n° CBS-7129.
- Yeast GRF18(plysΔ49), deposited under n° CBS-7130.
- Yeast AH22(plysΔ49), obtainable from deposits n° ATCC-38626 and CBS-7130.
- Yeast CRF18(plys50), obtainable from deposits n° CBS-7130 and CBS-7129.
- Process for preparing lysozyme characterized in that it consists of growing transformed yeasts according to any one of claims 1 to 10, and of recovering the lysozyme produced by the yeast.
- Process according to claim 16, wherein the yeast produces chicken lysozyme.
- Process according to claim 16, wherein the yeast produces human lysozyme.
- Process for preparing chicken lysozyme characterized in that it consists of growing transformed yeasts according to any one of claims 11 to 15, and of recovering the chicken lysozyme produced by the yeast.
- Vector plasmid plysΔ49, obtainable from deposit n° CBS-7130.
- Vector plasmid plys50, obtainable from deposit n° CBS-7129.
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